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BURGIN. GRAPPLING-INSTRUMENTS FOR HANDLING CANS IN MAKING I CE.

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Patented July 24, 1817.

EMIL BURGIN, OF BASIL, SWITZERLAND.

IMPROVEMENT lN GRAPPLlNG-INSTRUMENTS FORHANDLING CANS lN MAKlNG ICE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1283A 2'9, dated July 24, 1877 application filed April 5,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,EMIL Biinem, of Basil, Switzerland, have invented a new and useful Grappling-Instrument for Handling Cans or Yessels, of which the following is a specificatlon, reference being bad to the accompanyin g drawings, forming part of the same.

The object of my grappling instrument is to enable a workman, by means of a Windlass, a derrick, or similar mechanism, to remove at a single operation several of the cans and V consists of the device herein described, and

. shown in the drawings.

This invention is applicable to handling and removing cans in many of the industrial arts. I will mention, for example, the handling of cans for containing the water used for the manufacture of ice.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of four metal cans or vessels held iuthe grasp of my grappling-instrument. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the grappling-instrument itself; Fig. 3, a vertieal sectional view of the cans and grapplinginstrument cut on line a; :20, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a top view of the part marked 0 in the other figures.

A is a rod, and B is a circular platform, secured to the lower end of the said rods. to a a" a' are division plates or broad arms that rise from the platform. Between each two of these plates there is, on the platform and rising from its periphery, a projection, b. The upper end of the red A is provided with a loop hook or ring, 0.

O is a collar or sleeve, fitted to slide on the rod A. Extending downward from its under face are arms or projections, marked 11, four in number, equidistant from each other around the collar, corresponding to the four projections to on the platform B. When the body of the red A and the hole through the collar 0 is made square, the upper end of the rod may be made round by taking 0d the corners, leaving shoulders at the corners, so that, when the collar 0 is slid up ofi" from the square portion and turned one-eighth round, it will rest on the said corner-shoulders; or any other suitable device may be used to hold the collar up when lifted from the cans.

D l) D D are square metal cans or vessels. They are made with sunken bottoms e, of course leaving the walls projecting somewhat below the said bottoms. f f f f are arms or division-plates extending radially from a central hub, secured to the red A at a distance from the platform B about corresponding to the height of the cans D. The use of these arms is recommended but they are not essential.

The cans, four in number, are placed upon the platform B, all cornering on the center red A, the lower inner corner of each resting on the platform, and the projections 1) extending upward within the walls of the cans at the corners underneath the sunken bottoms, whereby all the cans are held securely on the platform. Then the collar 0, which had been slid upon the red A out of the way of the cans, is dropped down upon them, one of the projections d passing into the corner of each can. It is evident that the cans are now all securely clamped together, so that they may be lifted and moved together by taking hold of the ring 0,- also, that they may be liberated and detached from the clamp and from one another by simply sliding the collar 0 upon the rod A. This apparatus obviates the nocessity of having handles in the cans, which would take up room. It also enables a workman to handle several cans at a time as readily as he could handle a single one without it.

It is obvious that this grappling apparatus may be constructed to hold less or more than four cans by varying the form of the platform and collar, and, if need, by the form of cans. It is also evident that, if the arms or plates f were removed, the cans would be still held in place on the platform by the collar 0 but-for convenience in placing and arranging the cans on the platform B and within the grasp of the collar 0, I usually make my apparatus with these arms f attached to the red A. So, also, the division-plates marked 2 Meth d?!) a are convenient and useful; but they are with the projections d, all constructed and not essential, and their form and size may be combined substantially as and for the purpose varied. These division-plates, as well as described. plates f, serve the purpose of keeping the Witness my hand this 2d day of April, cans separated. 1877.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- v EMIL BURGIN' A grappling apparatus consisting of the Witnesses:

rod A, the platform B, provided with the pro- B. S. CLARK,

jeetions b, and the sliding collar 0, provided M. F. CLIFTON. 

